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Beginning Monday, April 26, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) will be conducting aerial patrols of gas transmission pipelines in the North Bay. Residents may notice a helicopter flying as low as 300 to 500 feet, or a fixed-wing aircraft following the transmission lines in Sonoma County. Additionally, PG&E will be patrolling lines in Vallejo, Marin and Napa counties.

Team Rubicon, a disaster response team made up of primarily veterans made helping Sonoma County its next mission. The group has between 22 and 26 people who will be heading out to homes burned down by the Kincade Fire in an effort to help homeowners sift through the ashes for important possessions. 

Vigil and workshop

Update: 4:30 p.m. May 5: A single additional vote added in the latest update show an even stronger victory for Measure C, with 70 in favor (85.37%) and 12 against (14.63%).Update: 8:10 p.m. Initial returns show the measure passing handily, however only 81 votes have been counted. Still 69 are in favor (85.19%) and 12 are against (14.81%).Update: Measure C asks if to reduce wildfire risk, preserve public safety and provide essential fire prevention services to our community, shall Northern Sonoma County Fire Protection District Ordinance No. 20/21-0127-02 be adopted, establishing a special tax, including $400 per occupied residential parcel, $400 per parcel with Commercial Recreational uses, and $50 per vacant parcel, with estimated annual revenue of $50,000, for an eight fiscal year period (2021/2022-2028/2029), with annual audits and funds being used exclusively for wildfire hazard reduction services benefitting Special Tax Zone 1?

ocal nonprofit Corazón Healdsburg—which provides services to the Hispanic community and hosts events that “amplify the local Latin-American voice” and “celebrate diversity, equity and inclusion”—hired Marcy Flores as their new CEO.

Cloverdale’s Clover Theater, which has been shuttered in some form since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, is preparing to reopen this fall.

The dual open houses on the new Laura Fish Somersal Park design plan, scheduled for Thursday, April 3, were canceled by the city of Healdsburg on Monday. David Fletcher, a principal with Fletcher Studio, the landscape architecture firm that has been involved in the project since 2019, spoke with The Tribune about the park design process, and why the April 3 meeting may have been canceled -  or, as both the city and the design firm insist, delayed.

The agreement, between Sonoma County and two groups representing county law enforcement employees, the Sonoma County Deputy Sheriffs’ Association and Sonoma County Law Enforcement Association, will expand the authority of the county's Independent Office of Law Enforcement Review and Outreach (IOLERO).  Established in 2015 as...